Zimbabwe: Zanu-PF Youth League Fractures Widen

THE Zanu PF women and youth leagues have become fertile battlegrounds for the warring factions locked in a bitter succession wrangle to replace ageing President Robert Mugabe, who turns 92 next month, amid plots and counter-plots in virtually all provinces.

This comes at a time when the Zanu PF national commissar Saviour Kasukuwere wrote a scathing letter to Mugabe seeking the dissolution of the Midlands provincial co-ordinating committee (PCC) amid allegations some senior politburo members are working closely with the youth league to influence the provinces to support Vice-President Emmerson Mnangagwa's presidential bid.

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